Tuesday 18 November 2008

Schooling in Vernacular

I beleive that schooling in vernacular is a boon granted to very few indians, but we all can change the vernacular for our future generation.This would be a kind of sin as we will subject them to our descision today but wouldnt we be just in helping them not being lost like us.Making it easy for them to choose the literature,music and medium of authentic expression as early aspossible.

Native language.Is this the language one is schooled in or the one in which one needs to be schooled in.How important is a language for expression.Do we all call ourselves civilized because we think we can speak.Did we also negotiate when we didn't speak.In one view i guess we all will be justified to dismiss language as trivial sh**.I guess, this is justified as far as our understanding of language is limited to the medium of expression.When we start to extend the scope of language as a modus of interaction,language as a source of information,language as a refridgrator of thoughts i guess we all agree that it merits more than a glance which makes it feel ignored.
On the other hand blowing it beyond requirement has its own fallacies.The art in this regard, as in many aspects of life,is to find a balance.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Tapan,Too much jargon,Dude!!I loved the stuff but had to really tax my brain.Can u keep it simple next time